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Modern version
Somebody once said that politics is Hollywood for the ugly. The modern version: Politics is Tiktok for the insane. The public parts of politics serve ABSOLUTELY NO FUNCTION. Congress and the executive have deliberately surrendered their own legal power to the courts and Deepstate. When they couldn’t surrender it to another branch, they placed non-legal…
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Still there
Wandering through the Historic Enid facebook site, I was reminded again of the lost art of bricklaying. Enid’s bricklayers were especially talented. Decided to feast on brick art, found a book in Googlebooks. One chapter is devoted to patented interlock methods. Showed a house in Sweden built with the Ideal Rolok method: This style is…
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Reciprocal realism
Now that QT is nearly done collapsing the Bitcoin bubble, there’s much less material for snark. One thing still holds true: Polistra’s Reciprocal Realism Rule. Realism(bitcoin) = 1 / Realism(world) Writers who see the world in stark clarity fall for bitcoin, or shill for bitcoin. Writers who see bitcoin clearly are lunatics on all other…
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Christie’s unique talent
DeSantis started his campaign with a bizarre “unique” qualification, entirely skipping his REAL qualification. He said that he was the only candidate who could serve two terms, while Trump could serve only one term. Every adult citizen can serve two terms. Christie could advertise a genuinely unique superpower. “If you’re tired of an elderly president…
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Another stupid thought
Looking again at Janelle’s wonderful tic-tac-toe games with ChatGPT, where Chat confidently loses and “pompously” explains how each of its blatantly losing patterns is a definite unbeatable win. New thought: This duplicates a very old swindle in gambling. The scammer rigs the game in FAVOR of the mark, letting the mark win a meaningful amount…
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New stupid thought
Random thought, seems wrong, but maybe worth writing down… Thinking again about the peculiarity of the partisan divide on the “virus”. The lockdowns and ballgags and needles were developed and scheduled by BUSH appointees acting on a 2005 command by BUSH. The lockdowns and ballgags and needles were implemented and mandated by TRUMP. The anti-Trump…
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Gotchapower
Listening again to a 1950 Hollywood gossip show called Hollywood Byline. This episode is valuable because it’s uncut, including the offstage chatting and negotiating among the actors and producers. You can tell easily when the onstage parts start and end; all the voices are clear and organized and grammatical. I was comparing this on/off variable…
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Where are the guilds, part 435438543895
Art historians and teachers are noticing that AI is replacing real masterpieces in google searches. Forgery is extremely old. Galleries and museums have been fighting human copiers and forgers for hundreds of years, and they’ve usually won the fight. Why aren’t they even TRYING to fight against mechanical forgers? This is the key variable in…
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Restitution?
BBC thinks Holmes should pay restitution to her “victims”. Crap. Her investors are ALL super-rich demons, including Kissinger himself. A million is like a penny for them. If we’re trying to create abstract justice, we should simply leave the pennies unrefunded. At first I was ambiguous about this case. By now I’m absolutely and fully…
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Did Morse know Delia?
Thinking about Delia Bacon…. Morse was part of the same circle as Hawthorne and Poe and Emerson. Was he also influenced by Delia? One of the biographies of Morse that I used in making models of his telegraph has a partial answer: = = = = = START QUOTE: It came out that he was…
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Who needs FDR when you’ve got Powell?
Via DailyMail: Goldman Sachs readies for a third round of lay-offs that will include some partners in the next few weeks after slashing more than 3,000 positions in the last year as investment banking deals drop off. It is CEO David Solomon’s attempts to cut costs as deal-making – the firm’s major revenue source –…
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Delia’s gone, one more round
Sam Kahn writes in New Atlantis about Delia Bacon, a forgotten figure who was at the center of the American creative burst in the 1840s. She was taught by Beecher and influenced Emerson and Hawthorne and Poe. She wasn’t related to Francis Bacon, but spent her life trying to establish that Bacon wrote Shakespeare’s work…
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Same old game, same complaint
Kim Iversen (starting at 30:00) echoes my bitching about DeSantis’s campaign, in the same words. Later, around 42 minutes, Kim interviews a Florida schoolteacher who describes the grotesque and deadly effects of STRANGLING KIDS, which are the same effects that the RFK distractors attribute to the needles. DeSantis went along with the mandates at first,…
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Hindsight?
Timothy Calkins, associate chair of the marketing department at Northwestern Kellogg, told Fox Business: ‘I think we’ll see more brands be very cautious about getting into the middle of some of these really controversial issues. I think in hindsight a team would say, you really don’t want to get involved in that controversial an issue.’…
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Not crude, just dumb
Via DailyMail: = = = = = START QUOTE: A CNN segment discussing the impending prison sentence of disgraced biotech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes took a strange turn, when a guest went rogue… Larry Levine, who is described as a ‘consultant who assists prospective inmates transition to prison life,’ was invited on to discuss his predictions…
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